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Brasserie founder joins St Luke's

St Luke's has hired Liz Whiston, one of the founders of The
Advertising Brasserie, to become a senior copywriter at the agency.

Whiston will partner Julian Chalkley, one of the agency's four creative
directors, under the executive creative directors, Al Young and Kate
Stanners.

Chalkley's former partner, Chris Wright, left the agency to attend
business school last September.

Whiston joined HHCL & Partners in 1989, a year after it launched, and
stayed at the agency for eight years. In 1995, after two years as the
creative director, she co-founded its fast-turnaround sister shop, The
Advertising Brasserie, sharing the position of creative director with
her fellow ex-HHCL staffer Dave Shelton.

Whiston's creative credits include the "fourth emergency service"
campaign for the Automobile Association, the Ronseal "it does exactly
what it says on the tin

Last April, Whiston left the Brasserie - which closed down last July
citing poor trading conditions - and has since been working on a
freelance basis. At St Luke's she has already begun working on campaigns
for British Telecom, COI Communications and AMP, the Australian finance
account won by the agency earlier this year. She is also likely to work
across various other pieces of agency business.

Whiston said: "I wanted to be hands-on again, writing major campaigns
for large clients. Jules is very exciting to work with. And St Luke's is
a progressive agency, which is my thing completely."

Young added: "Our policy at St Luke's is to front accounts with
top-level senior creatives. We are delighted that a writer and thinker
of Liz's calibre is joining us."

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